Hi everyone iam new here and iam new to perl so please bare with meÖI found out this is a great language and iam still in the process of learning it.

I just wanted help with a script if anyone can help please. I want to write a script that would get onto a port and from there it can gather output data into it which is stored in there and is continuously running. It does this by making one file per day and hence it keeps creating a new file for each day while running the script. If connection is lost it need to be able to reconnect back into it by pinging it or some other way. The main problem iam having here is writing a script to actually Log onto the port itself. Would anyone be able to help me as this is the first thing they ask me do in my new job? Any help would b great. I heard I can get scripts off the net for free but donít know where exactly.

Thanks alot Sir. I just need help with the start of the program which proves to be the hardest bit of it and that is how do i write a script that would actually log onto the port itself...as iam wkring on big network systems...

ok would you be able to help with somethin..i need a somethin that would help me to actually read from a file and checking the date for one day and till that date reaches 11:59pm then it opens a new file for the next day starting 12:00am ..its kinda a log thing..so that information gets send to these daily files...and once the file notices a date change it rolls over and opens a new file to accept new info for the next day! any help pleasE?